My how things change in just two years! Here’s all the cute little ones in my life…my nieces and nephews who I adore… If I only could remember all of the hilarious things they say! They keep us very entertained. Thanks to my mom for making the kids laugh in this first photo. Who knew that a Mimi shaking her booty could get such a good laugh… =)
P.S. These were taken at the Frio River in case you were wondering.
Love.♥LOVE♥.Love this first image!
Let’s just be honest…the picture below ↓ is the epitome of what happens during a family session 99% of the time.
Soooo, moral of the story…. please bring your sense of humor with you to all family sessions…or we will not win. lol!
These parents, were so patient with their little one, I was so sooo impressed!
Such a beauty and comes from a super sweet family! It’s always a pleasure seeing you guys every year!
I’ve been photographing this little beauty since she was an itty bitty baby. It was so nice to see her again, she’s growing up and looking just like her mama!
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After last summers heat, and brown brown brown everything….I have never appreciated green trees and grass so much in my entire life! So happy for the rain we had….it made for some pretty scenery for this family’s session! This little two year old was very active, but he gave us a few seconds of his time ! I love the closeups of him! Thanks so much for coming in Najera family! I enjoyed working with you guys!
I am so happy to have met this sweet beautiful family!
How is it that I have the best families ever to work with?
Where did fall go? I feel like the past few months were a complete whirlwind. As you know fall is a busy time…..and I get to meet some pretty awesome people during this time! It has been so great meeting new families, and seeing some families that I see each year as well. You all made my job fun! And did I mention you guys are photogenic? Well ya are! I have lots of sessions to post, I will get them on here slowly but surely!
Loved this session below…what a fun beautiful family! It only took me..well almost forever to get these posted…but as the cliche goes…better late than never. Enjoy!
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest! We had great support for the contest this year. May I just say you all were A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E! If you did not win, no worries YOU ARE STILL CUTE as ever! I promise!
And the contestant with the most votes goes to LITTLE MISS KYNSIE………taking the lead with 132 votes!
Congrats to Little Miss Kynsie! You won a free session and a free 8×10! I will be contacting your mom via email today!
That’s how I felt after last weeks email issue and this weeks uploading issues…. hours of troubleshooting…..only to realize it was my internet service that was having a problem that they needed to fix. Just a small bump in the road though…and we are back on track! Thank you to my clients for their patience, kindness and for being so understanding!
Now on to a very exciting post! I had the privilege of working with a great team at Ink by Paris Johns, two beautiful sweet models and an awesome makeup artist! They all did a great job, and I think all of our hardwork paid off I am loving these two images! This is just the tip of the iceberg though….as soon as we finalize things I will be posting more! Stay tuned!
P.S. Did you get my newsletter on the Cute Kid Contest? If you didn’t and are interested, shoot me an email at steph_photography1@yahoo.com and I will get you signed up for my newsletter!
If you have tried to contact me via my contact page on my website and/or blog….and you haven’t heard back from me….that’s because unfortunately it did not get to me. Looks like we have a malfunction, and it has been turned into my website company…so hopefully it will be resolved soon. Until then, please contact me directly at stephsimpson@grandecom.net! Sorry for any trouble. Thank you!
On my way to Midland today for a session I had to take a picture of these clouds, it was just beautiful! I love the gradation of blues…
I’ve known this bride since she was a little girl, some of her family I’ve known for what seems like forever and while friends, truly are family of mine. I was so happy when she contacted me to do her bridal session and wedding. It was a treat to photograph such a fun, sweet, happy and graceful person!
P.S. Just a side note, I only do weddings on special occasions, please understand that I like to keep to the portrait world for the most part… But…I love to photograph brides! So if you would like your bridal portrait done….by all means contact me!
“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” This photo…was my fav from the session. I can’t help but love the candids… I love moments like this when my client starts to forget for a split second that I’m there taking their picture! Have a great weekend everyone!
That quote… well it more applies to a friend of mine (you know who you are and you know it’s true!), but last month it completely applied to me! The first of the month I was walking along minding my own business and bam I fell, and dramatically so, hair and arms flying in the air and all! I don’t know maybe that crack in the sidewalk had it out for me… and yep, I twisted my ankle (ouch!). I’ve never sprang or broke anything….and now well I do have to say I have so much more sympathy for anyone who has done so. I was stuck in bed with my leg propped up with ice packs for a few days… and couldn’t walk for a few days. You’d think that I would have taken the opportunity to do nothing and enjoyed it. But the fact that I had to sit there, well made it miserable! I tried to learn how to use crutches, and that was to say the least… entertaining! You really should have been there! So basically I did alot of waiting…..waiting for the swelling to go down, waiting for the pain to go away, waiting for something good to come on tv (yeah that one never happened). It healed pretty quick and I’m better now! Not 100% but hey I wore heels sunday (oh heels how I missed you!) so that’s a good sign! Yay! I had a rating system by my shoe, first it was no shoe, then it was… hey I think this flip flop fits, then I graduated to the sandal, the small wedge, and finally I think I can wear any shoe again! This is a big deal for a girl, ya know! But the bad news is I got behind on everything in my life, and quite frankly got a little lazy! So I have lots of catching up to do here on the blog and everywhere else! We’ll start off with this handsome…..no…… beautiful little baby boy! He slept the entire session right up to the end…infact the last image of him crying is because he didn’t want to wake up!
And we thought we didn’t get anything….but we did! I just love this candid bw of this beautiful family! And let me tell you we had alot of West Texas elements working against us during this session….but we prevailed. If you have a maginifying glass (ha) or can zoom in (hit the ctrl button and the plus button and you can enlarge your page) take a look at the last picture it was a very well fed diamond back snake (rattlesnake?) that just crossed our path. I’m not much of a tree climber, but I almost was for this session! I looked up some info on rattlesnakes….and adults average four to five feet in length, but there are occasional “giants” that may reach 7 1/2 feet. (I do believe this one was a giant…of course I also have a very big imagination and tend to lean on the dramatic side) Diet consists primarily of small mammals (ewwww). However, as they reach adult size their diet becomes more generalized and consists of any appropriately sized mammal. Let’s just be thankful he didn’t consider us an appropriately sized mammal!
